Our team at AP Renewables Inc. opened 2018 with a major event called the Kabataan Inyovators. It is a youth development program participated by 160 youth leaders from the communities hosting our plants’ facilities. Inyovation was derived from inyo or yours and innovation, one of our organization’s core values. We engaged the youth leaders to think […]

There are a few but very good reasons why I love to read. To explore and get lost. To learn and grow in understanding. To be serenaded by words I don’t get from songs and conversations. And to be enchanted. For us book lovers, the pages of a book contain magic that makes life bearable […]

High school never ends. This was the comment of my high school batch mate, Glenda, on my Facebook post about our class’ gatherings over the holidays. I was at the grocery yesterday for my favorite locally produced corned beef. I was a bit sleepy; got home at past 3 a.m. following an impromptu karaoke at […]

My 2017 was about goals. We make resolutions and those resolutions seem absolute when the New Year fireworks soar and light up the heavens. Then the brand new year unfolds and the resolutions are forgotten. Not for me this time. What I did was actually write everything down and put measures to gauge my […]

How does one begin appreciating something that’s so profoundly beautiful? You see, whenever I finish reading a great book, I have this usual loss for words. Because the experience was so moving and magical, I sense this obligation to tell the world about the book. Yet I know that my words would never completely convey […]

Writings are photographs of the emotional state of the mind. For some of us who are not really writers but who write to communicate with ourselves, our compositions from the past gauge how we’ve grown so far. Like photographs, the poems or essays freeze those thoughts and longings of a much younger, less experienced version […]

About Sebastian Pitbull

Jess Cubijano is a native of Cebu, Philippines who relocated to the country’s Southern Tagalog region in pursuit of happiness and resilience outside his comfort zone. He is a development worker who has worked with rural communities and grassroots organizations. Beyond 5PM, he reads books, watches films, listens to the likes of Tori Amos, explores new places, whines about his weight, and writes his blues while dreaming of a better world.